Keep several screens open at once in the desktop app

In the desktop app you can keep several screens open at once, the way you would with browser tabs. Bills in one, the General Ledger in another, your inbox in a third, and switching between them is instant.

Opening a tab

• Hold Cmd and click any link (or click it with your middle mouse button). It opens behind what you are looking at, so your place is never lost.
• Hold Shift and click to open it and go straight there.
• Cmd+T opens a new tab on your inbox.
• Once a second tab exists, a strip appears along the top with a + button on the end.

Moving between tabs

Click a tab, or use Cmd+1 through Cmd+8 to jump to one by position. Cmd+9 always goes to the last tab, and Ctrl+Tab steps through them in order.

The back and forward control in the sidebar belongs to whichever tab you are in, so going back never drags another tab with it.

Closing a tab

Hover a tab and click the ✕, or press Cmd+W. There is always at least one tab open, so the last one cannot be closed.

Your tabs are remembered. Quit the app and reopen it and they come back the way you left them.

What a tab keeps

A tab you switch away from stays where it was. Scroll position, an expanded row, a bill you were halfway through editing: all of it is still there when you come back, and nothing is reloading in the background while you are elsewhere.

TALISK_HQ keeps the six most recently used tabs live. Beyond that the ones you have not touched for longest are set down and rebuilt when you next open them, which takes a moment and loses nothing.

Keeping a tab on one mailbox

If you have more than one email account connected, a tab can be pinned to one of them. A pinned tab stays on that mailbox even when you switch accounts in the sidebar, so you can keep a support inbox open beside your personal one.

1. Open a mail tab.
2. In the header, next to the page-size selector, click the mailbox name.
3. Choose Pin to whichever account you want this tab to hold.

The tab now shows that account's inbox, sent mail, starred mail, labels and search, and Check mail fetches that account. Its name appears under the tab title in the strip, so two mail tabs are told apart at a glance.

Anything you write from a pinned tab is sent from that account by default. You can still change the sender on an individual message with the From picker.

To undo it, open the same menu and choose Unpin this tab. The tab goes back to following the sidebar switcher, which is how every tab behaves until you pin it.

If the account a tab was pinned to is later disconnected, the tab quietly unpins itself and follows the switcher again, rather than showing you a different mailbox under the old name.

Books are shared across every tab

TALISK_HQ works in one book at a time, and that applies to the whole app rather than to each tab. Switching book moves every open tab to the new book at once.

This is deliberately different from mailboxes. Reading the wrong inbox is a nuisance; recording a bill against the wrong company is a real problem, so there is no way to put two books on screen at once inside one app.

Because that affects screens you may not be looking at, TALISK_HQ asks you to confirm whenever more than one tab is open, and tells you how many tabs are about to move.

Working in two books at the same time

Open the second book in your web browser. The browser signs in separately from the desktop app, so the two hold their own book independently and neither disturbs the other. Uploads, exports and connecting an account all stay with the book that window is on.

What does not work is a second browser tab in the same browser as the first. Both share one session, so switching book in one changes the other, and TALISK_HQ will stop that tab and ask you to reload it rather than let it record something against the wrong book.